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Everyone wants to abolish DST; fine. But they want to "abolish" it by making it permanent. They want that evening light in the summer far too much to give it up
by deathanatos 8y ago
Everyone wants to abolish DST; fine. But they want to "abolish" it by making it permanent. They want that evening light in the summer far too much to give it up. Now, in the winter, the already short day will start an hour later; you will wake up at night. Sunrise is 8:13am, for example, in Boston, at its extreme, under such a scheme.
And as an engineer, it is just so arbitrarily decoupled from anything natural, like the sun. Sure, standard time was already based on mean time which was based on solar time … it's already quite removed. But the reasons for those steps were much more sound, IMO.
I look forward to the day in the far future when the malcontents, dissatisfied with waking up at night, create a system to shift an hour from the evening to the morning in the winter, and establish Winter Saving Time, or WST…